USA officials rescued 70 hostages last week in a raid that left more than 20 ISIS fighters dead and about six captured, CNN reported.
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Towards the end of the 15-minute video, a masked English-speaking man delivers a warning to USA president Barack Obama before he executes a prisoner wearing an orange jumpsuit. The video isn’t displayed in this article because it contains footage of executioners using knives to saw off four Iraqi Kurdish soldiers’ heads.
Three Peshmerga fighters are forced to watch a fourth one being beheaded before they meet that fate as well in the horrifying undated video..
The three other jihadis then step forward and behead the remaining hostages.
During the summer, unverified news reports suggested he might be on the run from ISIS because his activities put the group in the crosshairs of the world.
The video claims to be the ISIS response to a Delta Force-Kurdish raid in northern Iraq last week that cost American Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler his life. It marks a significant departure in strategy for a White House that has continuously denied that there would be USA “boots on the ground” in either Iraq or Syria and bristled at any suggestion that the American forces would take part in combat.
General Lloyd Austin, the commander of all USA forces in the Middle East, described the rescue operation as “complex and highly successful”. His death highlights the risk US personal face in this battle against ISIS.
Motivated to act by the “mass slaughter of innocent people”, he is now helping to train Kurdish fighters and other volunteers – many of whom have very little experience.
“ISIS respects no form of human rights”.
“Islamic State militants have killed four Peshmerga members by beheading at the site of the US Special Forces operation in cooperation with the Kurdistan government in Hawija one week ago”, Aamaq quoted an anonymous ISIS leader as saying. “But we have another message for them”. But Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford told the Iraqis if they accept Russian assistance they can forget about any more U.S. aid.
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“We hold 215 ISIS prisoners and we treat them according to worldwide human rights laws”, he said.
